Tri-State and La Casa de Don Pedro, a Newark-based community group, recently rallied to gain pedestrian safety improvements in Newark, NJ. The City of Newark recently installed three flashing street signs at the intersection of Crane Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., giving additional safety to children playing in the area.
Over a two-year period, Tri-State and La Casa conducted walking tours in several Newark neighbourhoods to call attention to the unsafe conditions for pedestrians and cyclists. When a group of students was taken on a 1.5 mile walk from NJ Transit’s Newark Broad Street station to the Rutgers campus, many students pointed out that the many parking lots and the abundance of parking lots and the bleakness along the route would make them feel unsafe walking the street at night.
Students also noted that the streets they lived on were too wide to walk across safely and they feared riding their bikes on them because there were no bike lanes. Tri-State and La Casa de Don Pedro worked with the City and County and was successful in winning some visible changes making it safer for pedestrians and cyclists.
Coverage of the meetings can be found elsewhere on this blog and the TSTC's website.
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